A Belgian court on Thursday ordered a jail term of 20 years to Iran diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, for plotting a thwarted bombing during an Opposition rally in 2018 outside Paris.
According to a report by Al Jazeera, Assadi was attached to the Iran mission in Austria when he supplied explosives for the planned attack.
The Iran diplomat was arrested in Germany where he did not have diplomatic immunity.
According to media reports, it is for the first time since the 1979 revolution that an Iran official faced such charges in the European Union.
Meanwhile, three accomplices, dual Iran-Belgians, were given jail terms of between 15 and 18 years and stripped of their Belgian citizenship, Al Jazeera further reported.
( With inputs from ANI )
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